{"id":400706,"date":"2025-11-24T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:53:12","slug":"marcus-rashford-feeling-better-ahead-of-chelsea-test-for-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400706\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford \u2018feeling better\u2019 ahead of Chelsea test for Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The England international missed training ahead of the game but was back at the Ciutat Esportiva on Sunday as Hansi Flick\u2019s side switched their focus to the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFeeling better and back with the team,\u201d Rashford posted on Instagram as he prepares to return to England again with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019ll hope to feature again on Tuesday at Stamford Bridge and knows all about facing the Blues. Rashford has come up against Chelsea 21 times in his career so far, winning seven of those matches, drawing eight and losing the remaining six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019s also scored six goals and contributed five assists against the Blues, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/marcus-rashford\/bilanzdetails\/spieler\/258923\/gegner\/631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transfermarkt,<\/a> and will hope to add to his tally at Stamford Bridge next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He may not start of course, Raphinha made his return from injury against Athletic, and is also set to feature at the pre-match press conference &#8211; often a telling sign that the player will be in the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yet even if Rashford has to settle for a place on tbe bench on Tuesday night, he could still prove to be a useful weapon for Hansi Flick against a team and a ground he knows well from his time with Manchester United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England international missed training ahead of the game but was back at the Ciutat Esportiva on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2618,31701,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-400706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-team-news","9":"tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115603125216556674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}